Archives for "May 2007":

iTunes & Puerto Rico on May 23, 2007 in Music , Puerto Rico

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Homosexuality According to Latin Americans on May 22, 2007 in Latin America , Society

Don Kulick carried out a detailed study in 1997 of transvestites in Brazil. Kulick's findings were interesting, as they enforced and revealed a number of cultural perceptions existing in Latin America towards sexuality and homosexuality in specific. "the entire conceptual ordering of sexuality in Latin America differs significantly from North American world-views," states Anthropologist Sheldon Smith. "It is the person...

Another Forward From Dad on May 17, 2007 in Humor

>Para los Boricuas de Pura Sepa... Nosotros.... > > >No hay nadie que no conozca a un puertoriqueño o, por lo menos, conoce > >a alguien que conoce a un puertoriqueño. De todas maneras, le >preguntaron > >en una ocasión a un reconocido sabio maestro: ¿Qué es un >puertorriqueño? > > > >Su respuesta fue la siguiente: ¡Ah, los...

My Manifesto on Iraq on May 16, 2007 in Society

Iraq was invaded under the justification that dictator Saddam Hussein was arming himself with weapons of mass destruction. It was obvious that the wave of American patriotism due to 9-11 was taken advantage of, as it was hard for any American at the time to distinguish between Hussein's Baath party and Osaba Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda. Anybody with the willingness to...

Review of "On Revolution" by Hannah Arendt on May 16, 2007 in Books

The bulk of this book was quite boring with the exception of the last few chapters. Either ways, it was my opportunity to be introduced into the world of Hannah Arendt, the famous German political scientist. The later chapters of the book were so rich in content that it was well worth reading through the two hundred-or-so pages of...

Morcheeba & J Dilla on May 16, 2007 in Music

Woke up feeling tangy this morning. Shortly after rolling out of bed I had remembered to download a song that I heard in the background of a Columbus restaurant that I ate in during the weekend. I guess you can say that it has successfully broke me out of a 48 hours of "Got 2 Get Down". Morcheeba - End...

Robin Thicke - The Evolution of Robin Thicke on May 9, 2007 in Music

Robin Thicke - Got 2 Get Down f/ Faith Evans (4:33) One of the best songs I've ever heard, for a number of reasons. It's pretty much all I've been listening to for the last 48 hours....

Review of "The Russian Revolution" by Sheila Fitzpatrick on May 9, 2007 in Books

Fascinated by the talk of the rise of town hall meetings, community organization, and "soviet"-style units of political mobilization in Hannah Arendt's "On Revolution", I picked up a copy of Fitzpatrick's "Russian Revolution", which was not only considered one of the most informative books on the subject (or says the other reviews), but it was also half.com's cheapest. (Jaja....

Nicholas Negroponte's "Being Digital" on May 9, 2007 in Books

Don't even bother. It's like reading COMPAQ instruction manuals or wikipedia articles on entries such as "RAM" and "bits". I came across this book because one of those socio-technology-slash-Lawrence-Lessig type books kept making reference to it. Boring. With a name like Nicholas Negroponte you'd think the book would be a bit cooler....

Review of "Against the Megamachine" by David Watson on May 3, 2007 in Books

Great book to read right after Fitzpatrick's. While I'm not a fan of essay collections from single authors, the book is a wonderful anarchist account from a social and technological perspective. Watson finished the job that Fitzpatrick started by eliminating much of the technical and final differences between traditional socialism and capitalism. Khrushchev's bashing of the West was not...